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Chapter 2: Start of the new torture..., hmmm I mean, school year!
Disclaimer: Everything you recognize is not mine; Wizarding World and its inhabitants are solely the property of one JKR, and I use them just for the thrill of it. But do own something: the little part of the characters you do not recognize, well, that\'s mine! Oh, and the plot bunny is my pet - it nestled quite nice in my living quarters, and is looking as if it will have some offspring.
A/N: To follow the history of actions and the event flux easier, they will be brought in different POV\'s, so nothing important will be left out. The speaker or the person, who\'s POV it is, will be marked!
Chapter 2: Start of the new torture..., hmmm I mean, school year!
>parseltongue<
/thoughts/
#mental communication#
*emphasis*
(Severus\' POV)
Early on the next morning Severus strode into the Great Hall for breakfast. He was surprised to see that the chair on Minerva\'s left stayed unoccupied during the whole ordeal. He did not know why he wished to see his new colleague.
/I do not want to see her! I\'m merely cautious. She is an unknown factor in our everyday situation. Albus mostly employs incompetent fools, but he never trusts them, and... he puts trust in this girl. Just like he put it in me long time ago. And the mentioned training? The Dark Lord should never find out about her! / he thought.
Severus entered his classroom, and just then, he noticed his students.
/Oh, Merlin! Double class of sixth year Gryffindor - Slytherin! Circe, preserve me! /
He leaned on his desk. \"Welcome to the new torture year..., hmmm, I mean, school year. You were a disaster last year. I hope, for your own sake, that you will not continue foolish acts this year also. I will pair you, and the seating arrangement will stay for the rest of the year. You have been granted to be in this class, some by my will, some not,\" he said, eyeing Harry who was sitting next to Hermione Granger.
/At least the Red Menace is not in my class anymore, or that apocalypse of a Longbottom. Good for Herbology does not mean that you are skilled in Potions. /
\"Slytherins will have Gryffindor partners. For your information, not for my own personal delight, as some of you would like to presume, but by the orders of our *dear* Headmaster. The fool babbled something about House unity,\" he said.
He sat at his table. \"Zabini, Granger! You two have the honours to sit together for the rest of the year. Malfoy, Potter! As much as I am appalled by the thought that my best student sits with The Wreck of the Potions world, the Headmaster thought it would settle some differences. But you will be sitting at the front of the class, so I can keep you in my sight, Potter! Have I made myself clear enough?!\"
Draco looked smug and Potter just replied, \"yes, sir! Crystal!\" and went to sit next to his archenemy number 2.
\"Potter, please, do not blow yourself or something else up. My grades would suffer and then you will suffer,\" Malfoy said.
/Oh, Merlin! Here they go again! I love you two dearly, but if you two think you can blow my classroom and stay alive.../
\"And you just live to make me suffer!\" Potter retorted without even raising a look.
\"You wound me, Potter! And just begging to get it! You will not know what will be coming you way!\" Draco said, sneering.
\"Really?!\" Potter rose an eyebrow seaming very amused. \"I beg your pardon, Malfoy, but what will be coming?!\"
\"You will, by the time I am finished with you!\" Malfoy said.
/I need to break them apart... What was THAT? Of all things... An innuendo from Draco\'s mouth and directed at Potter?! And Potter did not kill him yet? / Severus thought, shocked.
\"Oh, really, Malfoy. Are you sure?\" Potter was grinning now.
\"Yes, as a matter of fact...\" Malfoy said, smirking.
Severus got up and stalked towards their table.
\"For Merlin\'s sake, SHUT UP YOU TWO!!!\" someone yelled.
Everybody in the classroom was shocked, including one Severus Snape. Granger became red as a tomato.
Severus woke from his shock to add, \"I agree with Miss Granger, for the first and only time in my life. I do not know what you are planning, but it will not occur in my classroom.\"
\"You owe me 10 Galleons, Draco!\" Potter said smugly.
\"Oh, stuff it, Potty!\" Malfoy said.
\"Yeah, you do! You, sour loser! We have made a bet and you said that Zabini will lose temper and crack, which would be cheating after the stories he had to endure during the train ride,\" Potter said, pushing back his bangs.
\"So what? I bet Granger listened to the same stories from you. And it\'s a tie! I recall a certain bet about us sitting together and it was also on 10 Galleons,\" Draco said, smirking.
\"Like that was hard to guess! Your godfather would make us sit together, even if we were throwing daggers at each other.\" Potter said, leaning on the table.
\"Well, if we even forget about me threatening you three months ago to kill you, we were never on the best friend basis. We were not even on a friendly base. But now that we have some common interests... By the way, have you seen Hank\'s new look?\"
Potter made a retching sound.
\"I take that as a yes. Carl did the best thing about that: he locked him in,\" Malfoy said.
\"Well, he showed it to everybody at the club. It is not as if I wanted to know. Haven\'t you noticed that I was not there the last week and a half? No?! Well, like you would... My cousin followed me and saw *IT*, so I got grounded. I believe my sorry excuse for an uncle said, that if I am already a freak and I need to stay under his roof, that he will not allow me to become one of *them*. Like I can change what I am,\" Potter said, sighing.
\"Why, in Merlin\'s name, did you not contact Carl or John? We would came and visit,\" Draco said, smiling.
/What, the bloody hell, is going on? / Severus thought as he stared at the two just like everybody else in the classroom. /They are acting as if they are best mates. /
\"Really funny, Draco. I still need a place to stay next summer. If you guys came trashing my place, I would be locked up in the cupboard again. And that is not a session I need to repeat,\" Potter said.
Draco rolled his eyes. \"You are probably right. Carl cannot keep his hands off of Hank.\"
Potter chocked. \"His hands? There are other things Carl cannot keep away from Hank, and that is definitely not a hand. They are sick!\" he said.
\"Like you and John were different! Lip-locked all the time. A thing I did not need to know about you, Potter!\" Draco said and put his head in his hands.
/Potter is gay? Since when?! /
\"Yeah, like you are the one to talk? What about you and Mr. Know-it-all Peter?\" Potter said, grinning.
\"Broke up with him. He was a bore. All talk and no play. A bore!!!\" Draco almost screamed.
/Draco is gay? Lucius is going to kill him. If he ever gets out of Azkaban, that is. / Severus thought, doubly shocked.
\"Yeah, he was. Been there, done that. But I miss John. Had to tell him I found my parents in USA and that I\'m moving there,\" Potter said.
\"Good thing there is a Slytherin lurking somewhere in there, under all that Gryffindor shit! So now our Potty is heart broken... Well, what can I say, a bigger dick will walk your way one day!\" Draco grinned mischievously.
\"For the love of all things holy, we have heard enough! Enough is not a good word, I\'d say too much, but that is still too weak a word. From now on shut up you two or I will sic Granger on you!\" Zabini protested.
\"*ME*?!\" Granger stood up.
\"Well, you know a lot more hexes and curses then I. It is a logical move!\" Zabini defended himself.
\"Listen me well and listen me good, Blaise. (A/N: I heard the former line in a movie while channel surfing the other day, and I just saw Draco say it... So I threw it in.) I AM GAY! AND I DO NOT CARE! SO STUFF IT OR YOU WILL SEE WHAT I KNOW IN THE FIELDS OF HEXES AND CURSES!\" Draco yelled. He then turned towards his Potions Master: \"Yes, godfather, I am gay. I do not care for females. I like my partners male. Mother threw me out two and half months ago. A good thing is that I already had some huge amount of Galleons transferred into my personal vault or I would be poorer then..., well, some persons we know!\" He looked at Potter; when he smiled, Draco continued: \"I have been living in a small apartment for the same period of time and I meet Potter at the places I was trashing. You know gay hangouts. So we got our differences settled...\"
\"Yeah, after some broken ribs and couple of blue eyes!\" Potter added.
\"I do not care if you wanted to bed a Dementor, you are still my godson. But keep in mind, that now as your mother threw you out, I am your legal guardian,\" Severus addressed Draco and then mumbled, \"like I need another brat to be guardian to. And the other still needs to be informed.\"
\"What was that, sir?\" Potter asked.
\"Nothing, Potter!\" Severus cursed himself inwardly. \"Is your father informed?\"
\"You are very well aware why is Lucius residing inside Azkaban walls. And I can presume, that he already has plans to *straighten me up*. But he is no longer my Father. I will not go down the way he had chosen for me. We are all aware what You-Know-Who thinks about homosexual preferences. So I\'m stuck to this Boy Wonder. My life and freedom now are in his hands. If you will act as Mother, then do so. I do not care. I realized what real life is, so...\" Draco stared at his desktop.
\"What part of my not caring even if you wanted to bed a Dementor (A/N: That would go just swell. I already see the slogan: ~ When you share a bed with a Dementor, you lay with a soul and wake up without it. Perfect for those, who do not wish to be tempted to sell it to the Devil! ~ The business would bring a real buck.), you did not understand, boy?! I do not care. Being heterosexual or homosexual does not change a person. I would assume that Potter knows that there are even Professors that are of the same inclination right now at Hogwarts,\" Severus said.
Potter nodded. \"But it is not mine to tell. Nor yours, sir! I find out by mere accident.\"
\"It is not a secret, Harry. It is that no one was ever interested to know,\" Remus Lupin said as entered inside the classroom.
\"Lupin!\" Severus curtly said.
\"Severus!\" Lupin nodded.
\"Professor Lupin is gay? Why the hell didn?t you tell me that, Potty?\" Draco was feigning shock.
\"None of your business, Ferret face!\" Potter pushed his glasses up his nose.
\"Here they go again! You two are too old to be acting like children,\" Lupin stated.
\"I would presume that that is the way they communicate. At least they are not hexing each other. Some would think they are doing this, just to give us gray hairs,\" Severus said, sighing.
\"Oh, stuff it, godfather. You\'re too young to have gray hairs. For Merlin\'s sake, you\'re only 36,\" Draco exclaimed.
\"See, Lupin, the brats do not have any more respect for their elders,\" Severus said. He strolled to his desk. \"That will be 5 Points from both Gryffindor and Slytherin for disturbing class, and 5 more Points from Slytherin for your cheek, Draco.\"
Potter was smirking at Draco.
Severus then turned towards Lupin. \"What do you need? I am in the middle of a class, even if it is a chaotic one.\"
\"Severus, Severus...\" Lupin chuckled. \"If you continue to behave like this, you will cause yourself a stroke before you enter the tender age of forty!\"
\"Lupin!\" Severus growled.
\"All right! All right! Dumbledore sent me! You and Harry are to go to his office now. Something about...\" Lupin started.
\"Remedial Potions! Great, one more year. I know I suck at Potions, but is that really needed?\" Potter looked at Lupin.
\"Sorry, Har! Albus\' request!\"
\"And we all know that you cannot say *no* to him! The old man can manipulate you into everything,\" Potter said.
Severus continued to glare. / Oh, great! I hope he has some great Silencing charms on his office. This is going to be *the shouting match* of the millennium. / he thought.
\"And who, pray tell, will watch after the brats?\" Severus was eyeing Lupin.
\"Why, Severus, me! I have a free period,\" Lupin said.
Severus was about to protest when Lupin continued, \"Just you be off. I\'ll watch after then,\" and rushed them both out off the classroom.
Author\'s Note: One more cheer for my beta, Blackrose. I plan on posting at least a chapter per week. If something happens, and my beta or I get indisposed, I\'ll post an author\'s note informing you about it. I hope no more wayward question marks will visit my story; they are the reason why I need to post each chapter twice.
A/N: To follow the history of actions and the event flux easier, they will be brought in different POV\'s, so nothing important will be left out. The speaker or the person, who\'s POV it is, will be marked!
Chapter 2: Start of the new torture..., hmmm I mean, school year!
>parseltongue<
/thoughts/
#mental communication#
*emphasis*
(Severus\' POV)
Early on the next morning Severus strode into the Great Hall for breakfast. He was surprised to see that the chair on Minerva\'s left stayed unoccupied during the whole ordeal. He did not know why he wished to see his new colleague.
/I do not want to see her! I\'m merely cautious. She is an unknown factor in our everyday situation. Albus mostly employs incompetent fools, but he never trusts them, and... he puts trust in this girl. Just like he put it in me long time ago. And the mentioned training? The Dark Lord should never find out about her! / he thought.
Severus entered his classroom, and just then, he noticed his students.
/Oh, Merlin! Double class of sixth year Gryffindor - Slytherin! Circe, preserve me! /
He leaned on his desk. \"Welcome to the new torture year..., hmmm, I mean, school year. You were a disaster last year. I hope, for your own sake, that you will not continue foolish acts this year also. I will pair you, and the seating arrangement will stay for the rest of the year. You have been granted to be in this class, some by my will, some not,\" he said, eyeing Harry who was sitting next to Hermione Granger.
/At least the Red Menace is not in my class anymore, or that apocalypse of a Longbottom. Good for Herbology does not mean that you are skilled in Potions. /
\"Slytherins will have Gryffindor partners. For your information, not for my own personal delight, as some of you would like to presume, but by the orders of our *dear* Headmaster. The fool babbled something about House unity,\" he said.
He sat at his table. \"Zabini, Granger! You two have the honours to sit together for the rest of the year. Malfoy, Potter! As much as I am appalled by the thought that my best student sits with The Wreck of the Potions world, the Headmaster thought it would settle some differences. But you will be sitting at the front of the class, so I can keep you in my sight, Potter! Have I made myself clear enough?!\"
Draco looked smug and Potter just replied, \"yes, sir! Crystal!\" and went to sit next to his archenemy number 2.
\"Potter, please, do not blow yourself or something else up. My grades would suffer and then you will suffer,\" Malfoy said.
/Oh, Merlin! Here they go again! I love you two dearly, but if you two think you can blow my classroom and stay alive.../
\"And you just live to make me suffer!\" Potter retorted without even raising a look.
\"You wound me, Potter! And just begging to get it! You will not know what will be coming you way!\" Draco said, sneering.
\"Really?!\" Potter rose an eyebrow seaming very amused. \"I beg your pardon, Malfoy, but what will be coming?!\"
\"You will, by the time I am finished with you!\" Malfoy said.
/I need to break them apart... What was THAT? Of all things... An innuendo from Draco\'s mouth and directed at Potter?! And Potter did not kill him yet? / Severus thought, shocked.
\"Oh, really, Malfoy. Are you sure?\" Potter was grinning now.
\"Yes, as a matter of fact...\" Malfoy said, smirking.
Severus got up and stalked towards their table.
\"For Merlin\'s sake, SHUT UP YOU TWO!!!\" someone yelled.
Everybody in the classroom was shocked, including one Severus Snape. Granger became red as a tomato.
Severus woke from his shock to add, \"I agree with Miss Granger, for the first and only time in my life. I do not know what you are planning, but it will not occur in my classroom.\"
\"You owe me 10 Galleons, Draco!\" Potter said smugly.
\"Oh, stuff it, Potty!\" Malfoy said.
\"Yeah, you do! You, sour loser! We have made a bet and you said that Zabini will lose temper and crack, which would be cheating after the stories he had to endure during the train ride,\" Potter said, pushing back his bangs.
\"So what? I bet Granger listened to the same stories from you. And it\'s a tie! I recall a certain bet about us sitting together and it was also on 10 Galleons,\" Draco said, smirking.
\"Like that was hard to guess! Your godfather would make us sit together, even if we were throwing daggers at each other.\" Potter said, leaning on the table.
\"Well, if we even forget about me threatening you three months ago to kill you, we were never on the best friend basis. We were not even on a friendly base. But now that we have some common interests... By the way, have you seen Hank\'s new look?\"
Potter made a retching sound.
\"I take that as a yes. Carl did the best thing about that: he locked him in,\" Malfoy said.
\"Well, he showed it to everybody at the club. It is not as if I wanted to know. Haven\'t you noticed that I was not there the last week and a half? No?! Well, like you would... My cousin followed me and saw *IT*, so I got grounded. I believe my sorry excuse for an uncle said, that if I am already a freak and I need to stay under his roof, that he will not allow me to become one of *them*. Like I can change what I am,\" Potter said, sighing.
\"Why, in Merlin\'s name, did you not contact Carl or John? We would came and visit,\" Draco said, smiling.
/What, the bloody hell, is going on? / Severus thought as he stared at the two just like everybody else in the classroom. /They are acting as if they are best mates. /
\"Really funny, Draco. I still need a place to stay next summer. If you guys came trashing my place, I would be locked up in the cupboard again. And that is not a session I need to repeat,\" Potter said.
Draco rolled his eyes. \"You are probably right. Carl cannot keep his hands off of Hank.\"
Potter chocked. \"His hands? There are other things Carl cannot keep away from Hank, and that is definitely not a hand. They are sick!\" he said.
\"Like you and John were different! Lip-locked all the time. A thing I did not need to know about you, Potter!\" Draco said and put his head in his hands.
/Potter is gay? Since when?! /
\"Yeah, like you are the one to talk? What about you and Mr. Know-it-all Peter?\" Potter said, grinning.
\"Broke up with him. He was a bore. All talk and no play. A bore!!!\" Draco almost screamed.
/Draco is gay? Lucius is going to kill him. If he ever gets out of Azkaban, that is. / Severus thought, doubly shocked.
\"Yeah, he was. Been there, done that. But I miss John. Had to tell him I found my parents in USA and that I\'m moving there,\" Potter said.
\"Good thing there is a Slytherin lurking somewhere in there, under all that Gryffindor shit! So now our Potty is heart broken... Well, what can I say, a bigger dick will walk your way one day!\" Draco grinned mischievously.
\"For the love of all things holy, we have heard enough! Enough is not a good word, I\'d say too much, but that is still too weak a word. From now on shut up you two or I will sic Granger on you!\" Zabini protested.
\"*ME*?!\" Granger stood up.
\"Well, you know a lot more hexes and curses then I. It is a logical move!\" Zabini defended himself.
\"Listen me well and listen me good, Blaise. (A/N: I heard the former line in a movie while channel surfing the other day, and I just saw Draco say it... So I threw it in.) I AM GAY! AND I DO NOT CARE! SO STUFF IT OR YOU WILL SEE WHAT I KNOW IN THE FIELDS OF HEXES AND CURSES!\" Draco yelled. He then turned towards his Potions Master: \"Yes, godfather, I am gay. I do not care for females. I like my partners male. Mother threw me out two and half months ago. A good thing is that I already had some huge amount of Galleons transferred into my personal vault or I would be poorer then..., well, some persons we know!\" He looked at Potter; when he smiled, Draco continued: \"I have been living in a small apartment for the same period of time and I meet Potter at the places I was trashing. You know gay hangouts. So we got our differences settled...\"
\"Yeah, after some broken ribs and couple of blue eyes!\" Potter added.
\"I do not care if you wanted to bed a Dementor, you are still my godson. But keep in mind, that now as your mother threw you out, I am your legal guardian,\" Severus addressed Draco and then mumbled, \"like I need another brat to be guardian to. And the other still needs to be informed.\"
\"What was that, sir?\" Potter asked.
\"Nothing, Potter!\" Severus cursed himself inwardly. \"Is your father informed?\"
\"You are very well aware why is Lucius residing inside Azkaban walls. And I can presume, that he already has plans to *straighten me up*. But he is no longer my Father. I will not go down the way he had chosen for me. We are all aware what You-Know-Who thinks about homosexual preferences. So I\'m stuck to this Boy Wonder. My life and freedom now are in his hands. If you will act as Mother, then do so. I do not care. I realized what real life is, so...\" Draco stared at his desktop.
\"What part of my not caring even if you wanted to bed a Dementor (A/N: That would go just swell. I already see the slogan: ~ When you share a bed with a Dementor, you lay with a soul and wake up without it. Perfect for those, who do not wish to be tempted to sell it to the Devil! ~ The business would bring a real buck.), you did not understand, boy?! I do not care. Being heterosexual or homosexual does not change a person. I would assume that Potter knows that there are even Professors that are of the same inclination right now at Hogwarts,\" Severus said.
Potter nodded. \"But it is not mine to tell. Nor yours, sir! I find out by mere accident.\"
\"It is not a secret, Harry. It is that no one was ever interested to know,\" Remus Lupin said as entered inside the classroom.
\"Lupin!\" Severus curtly said.
\"Severus!\" Lupin nodded.
\"Professor Lupin is gay? Why the hell didn?t you tell me that, Potty?\" Draco was feigning shock.
\"None of your business, Ferret face!\" Potter pushed his glasses up his nose.
\"Here they go again! You two are too old to be acting like children,\" Lupin stated.
\"I would presume that that is the way they communicate. At least they are not hexing each other. Some would think they are doing this, just to give us gray hairs,\" Severus said, sighing.
\"Oh, stuff it, godfather. You\'re too young to have gray hairs. For Merlin\'s sake, you\'re only 36,\" Draco exclaimed.
\"See, Lupin, the brats do not have any more respect for their elders,\" Severus said. He strolled to his desk. \"That will be 5 Points from both Gryffindor and Slytherin for disturbing class, and 5 more Points from Slytherin for your cheek, Draco.\"
Potter was smirking at Draco.
Severus then turned towards Lupin. \"What do you need? I am in the middle of a class, even if it is a chaotic one.\"
\"Severus, Severus...\" Lupin chuckled. \"If you continue to behave like this, you will cause yourself a stroke before you enter the tender age of forty!\"
\"Lupin!\" Severus growled.
\"All right! All right! Dumbledore sent me! You and Harry are to go to his office now. Something about...\" Lupin started.
\"Remedial Potions! Great, one more year. I know I suck at Potions, but is that really needed?\" Potter looked at Lupin.
\"Sorry, Har! Albus\' request!\"
\"And we all know that you cannot say *no* to him! The old man can manipulate you into everything,\" Potter said.
Severus continued to glare. / Oh, great! I hope he has some great Silencing charms on his office. This is going to be *the shouting match* of the millennium. / he thought.
\"And who, pray tell, will watch after the brats?\" Severus was eyeing Lupin.
\"Why, Severus, me! I have a free period,\" Lupin said.
Severus was about to protest when Lupin continued, \"Just you be off. I\'ll watch after then,\" and rushed them both out off the classroom.
Author\'s Note: One more cheer for my beta, Blackrose. I plan on posting at least a chapter per week. If something happens, and my beta or I get indisposed, I\'ll post an author\'s note informing you about it. I hope no more wayward question marks will visit my story; they are the reason why I need to post each chapter twice.